My METHODS in individual, couples and family counseling

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Is a structured short-term treatment method for couples (EFCT), for individuals (EFIT) and families (EFFT) that integrates systemic, attachment-oriented and humanistic approaches. She was developed in the early 1980s by Dr. Sue Johnson and Leslie Greenberg and has been continuously developed ever since.

The key question in relationships is "Are you there for me?" That means "Do you care about me?" Can I reach you emotionally? Will you respond when I call you?" Secure attachment is built on emotional accessibility and responsiveness.

Conflict is all about emotional independence. Often we deal with our panic in ways that scare our partner. It is a negative "dance" of protest and distance.

In one-on-one counseling (EFIT) we work on relationship patterns from childhood and adulthood.

In family counseling (EFFT) we work on difficulties in the parent-child relationship.

EMDR - "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing".

The scientifically sound and well-evaluated method is based on the knowledge that our brain processes events through rapid eye movements and transfers them from short-term memory to other, more appropriate regions.

EMDR makes use of this impressive self-regulation process: through targeted, externally stimulated eye movements, the processing of stressful events is promoted, blockages and obstacles to action are quickly and effectively resolved: In a structured process, the coachee follows - after clarifying the stressful situation - with his/her eyes to the coach's moving fingers.

While EMDR was originally developed for use in clinical contexts, the area of ​​application has expanded greatly in recent years and has long since found its way into psychological counseling and personality development.

Brainspotting

was discovered and developed by PhD David Grand. David Grand is a recognized expert in psychotraumatology. The discovery of Brainspotting grew out of his EMDR work.

Access using the BrainSpot enables many life issues, mental stress, mental blockages, trauma, acute pain and mental stress, such as losses, fears, psychosomatic reactions to be processed and resolved directly in the brain using eye positions. A very effective method in emotion regulation.

Brainspotting, in addition to various processes, also enables personal and professional goals/visions to be recognized and tackled in a more focused manner. Here emTrace® and Brainlog® are a very good addition.

Ego State Therapy 

is a resource-focused and body-oriented form of therapy. It was developed taking into account psychoanalytic theories by John Watkins and Helen Watkins. Ego-state therapy supplements the self- and object-representations (“introjects”) of psychoanalytic object-relationship theory with the separate term ego-state.

I use Ego State Therapy in psychological counseling with injured or destructively hurting parts. This leads to a change in thinking and behavior in a very natural way.

Timeline Therapy

Is an intervention in neurolinguistic programming that processes stressful events and the resulting problems in the context of their emergence. Memories can be represented chronologically on a "timeline". Once this line is projected into space, the client can mentally go back along it to the original situation. On other sections of his timeline he finds experiences with resources that would have been sufficient to solve the problems. These can be transferred to the problem situation and enable a solution there that prevents later repetitions and offers constructive alternatives that are implemented in the current behavior.

Imaginative Family Constellation

The imaginative family constellation has its origins in the re-imprinting process of Robert Dilts, the co-founder of NLP.

In an imaginative family constellation, we dissolve emotional blockages, beliefs or patterns on the personality level of belonging.

Constellation imaginatively means that the client is instructed to allocate certain system elements (people, things, goals, values, parts of personality, etc.) relevant to the matter in an imagined space to a place that corresponds to the relationship dynamics of the elements to one another. One of the advantages of the imaginative compared to the real constellation is that the sensory properties of the system elements are designed freely and that changes in the imagination can be carried out more quickly and easily than within physical limits and laws. We line up in the year of minting.

Experiences in the family of origin lead to behavioral patterns in many people, which can act as limits for the development of personal capabilities and thus a successful life perspective in adult life.